>>28207885Anki Note Setup:
When you make your own deck, you will have to decide what kind of deck format you want to use for your mined cards. Some people prefer sentence cards, some people prefer vocabulary cards. In the end, it's up to you, but I think for mining vocabulary cards make a lot more sense because you usually mine a sentence in order to learn a single word, and not the other way around. I personally use more or less exactly the same setup for my own cards as the Core Deck does, except I added a button to the front that allows me to view the sentence as a hint so I can get some context for the words in case I can't recall it right off the bat, and I put in a "keyword" field where I choose the most important dictionary definitions I want to remember because the auto-generated one can be quite comprehensive at times.
This is how I have set up my fields
https://files.catbox.moe/2ezsaj.jpg and here it is in action
https://files.catbox.moe/fg8tc2.mp4 I don't pay attention to anything below the picture, it's only there so I can look it up if I need more details.
Yomichan Setup:
I'm going to outsource this section, there's already a million guides out there that can be do it better than me:
https://learnjapanese.moe/yomichan/There's a lot of different dictionaries out there and I'm not familiar with all of them that this site recommends, so I'll just upload the ones I use to just in case, you can use whatever you like:
https://files.catbox.moe/4o7qrd.rar In either case, just make sure that JMdict has the highest "Priority" number assigned to always get it as the first option when scanning a word, as that will be the one you will be primarily using for now.
Also, make sure to set up proper Audio sources and enable the option to play sound by default when looking up words. The more you hear a word, the easier you can remember it, so use audio whenever you can.
Memento Setup
I think most of it is fairly self-explanatory and explained decently in the user interface itself, but make sure to import your Yomichan dictionary into the program in the options menu and keep JMdict at the top and properly map the names of your card's fields in Anki with the correct values in the Anki Integration section. You can click the help button in that section for further explanation. Also, it's not immediately obvious at first glance, but you can highlight multiple lines at the same time by dragging your selection on the subtitle list of the right, so you can create cards with full context even though the sentence is split across several subtitle lines.
ShareX Setup (This is for version 13.7 only right now):
Go to Task Settings -> OCR and set language to Japanese and check all three boxes below
Go to Hotkey Settings -> Add and recreate the following options:
https://files.catbox.moe/91ibx8.pngBind the OCR Hotkey you just create to any key or key combination of your preference. I have most of my ShareX tasks bound to the %/x/-/+ keys on the numpad because I never use theses anyway
I also recommend creating additional Hotkeys for recording audio and screenshots to your preference, so you can take screenshots more easily and record game and/or stream audio to put it onto cards. I've made quite a few cards with recordings of things FBK says (see
https://files.catbox.moe/fg8tc2.mp4 for an example) and created hundreds if not thousands from games using a combination of the OCR, audio and screenshot functions, they are very convenient. I specifically bought one of these computer mice with a ton of buttons at the side so I can bind all my hotkeys on there, makes for some really smooth mining:
https://i.rtings.com/assets/products/EBCToL8h/logitech-g604-lightspeed/design-medium.jpg_________________________________
That's it, Friends. I hope this will be useful for you some of you Friends, took me more or less a whole day to make! I hope I didn't forget too much. If you have anything to contribute or any questions you want to ask or anything, feel free to ask here. This is a lot of information, I know, but don't be intimidated. The hardest thing is to start taking the first step, and there has never been a better time to do that. Definitely have a look at other guides out there, as well, the authors are way more knowledgeable than me and go into way more depth than I can do here.
